If I remember the interview correctly, probably Bernardo felt that maybe he didn’t explain it completely to Maria from the beginning and that’s why he felt a little guilty and nothing more than that. The problem is someone made up a major headline to create a scandal. That was something made up by a journalist.ĭon’t make a big issue over this story, because it’s ridiculous. I was there with two cameras and nothing happened.… Nobody was raping anybody. I read that there was a kind of violence made on her but that’s not true. I think the journalists are making an issue that is not really an issue. I was really disgusted by what was written, which is not true at all. It’s something that some ignorant journalist put together. What was your reaction to the media response to the resurfaced interview with Bertolucci? THRspoke with Storaro in Rome about the media firestorm, what the actual process was like on set and why he believes Last Tango in Paris still hits a nerve with viewers after 44 years.Ī Dark, Tangled "Tango": Brando, Bertolucci and the Question of an Actor's Consent Moreover, he claims that Schneider was nothing but thrilled to be a part of the film. Speaking exclusively to THR about the new controversy, Storaro maintains that nothing malicious occurred on set during the shooting of the film, and that the surprise nature of the scene was simply part of Bertolucci’s filmmaking process. Storaro, who was on set throughout the shoot, says he had not been following the renewed controversy, but was sent a story from a friend about the resurfaced interview and was shocked that a three-year-old discussion about a film released in 1972 was being turned into a “ridiculous” scandal. 5, Bertolucci, released a new statement in which he defended the simulated scene, adding that the only thing unknown to Schneider, who, he said, read and agreed to the explicit nature of the script before signing onto the role, was “the idea of the butter.” The Office’s Jenna Fischer called on all copies of the film to be destroyed, claiming it contained an “actual rape.” The most controversial moment in the film remains the infamous “butter” scene, in which Brando, then 48, employs the substance as a lubricant for anal sex with Schneider, who was 19 at the time. Lauded for its adventurousness by critics and honored with two Academy Award nominations for Brando and Bertolucci, the film nevertheless instantly stirred controversy - it was banned or censored in multiple countries and was initially given an X-rating by the MPAA. Starring Marlon Brando, who was then basking in the acclaim of his unlikely comeback in Francis Coppola’s The Godfather, the film is a provocative meditation on love and sex that finds Brando’s depressed, recently widowed American become sexually involved with a young Parisian woman portrayed by then-newcomer Maria Schneider. Storaro worked with Bertolucci two years later on Last Tango in Paris. The three-time Oscar winner, known for his lush visual style in classics like Apocalypse Now, Reds and The Last Emperor, has been a longtime collaborator of 76-year-old Italian auteur Bernardo Bertolucci’s, beginning in 1970 with the groundbreaking Italian drama The Conformist, which is considered one of the most strikingly cinematic films of all time. Vittorio Storaro is considered a legend in the cinematography world.
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